This experience is much simpler than having to scrub VMs to remove unnecessary SSH public keys. When users join or leave your team, you can update the RBAC policy for the VM to grant access as appropriate. Seamless collaboration: With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), you can specify who can sign in to a given VM as a regular user or with administrator privileges. The ability to log in to Linux VMs with Azure Active Directory also works for customers that use Federation Services.

To further secure login to Azure virtual machines, you can configure multi-factor authentication.The password complexity and password lifetime policies configured for your Azure AD directory help secure Linux VMs as well.By reducing your reliance on local administrator accounts, you do not need to worry about credential loss/theft, users configuring weak credentials etc.There is no need to create local administrator accounts and manage credential lifetime. You can use your corporate AD credentials to log in to Azure Linux VMs.There are many benefits of using Azure AD authentication to log in to Linux VMs in Azure, including:

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